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South Northamptonshire was a local government district in Northamptonshire, England, from 1974 to 2021. Its council was based in the town of Towcester, first established as a settlement in Roman Britain. The population of the Local Authority District Council in 2011 was 85,189. [1]
Former logo of the Highways Agency (1994–2015) The Highways Agency was created as an executive agency of the Department for Transport on 30 March 1994. [5]As part of the Department for Transport's 2010 Spending Review settlement, Alan Cook was appointed to lead an independent review of the government's approach to the strategic road network. [6]
Robert Stephenson's railway bridge, (known as the Blisworth Arch) 1837-8, between Milton Malsor and Blisworth, about 5 miles (8 km) south of Northampton. A viaduct was the original intention. [8] Many traditional Northamptonshire local stone cottages, often thatched, and other buildings line the Towcester and Stoke Roads. All, including the ...
Sixfields is also the name of a division of Northamptonshire County Council since the 2013 county council elections when it was held by the Liberal Democrat party. The division covers the Northampton town areas of Briar Hill, Camp Hill, part of West Hunsbury, Hunsbury Hill, Swan Valley, Hunsbury Meadows, Upton and St James.
A6116 south-east (Brigstock Road) / A4300 south-west (Stamford Road) / Long Croft Road to A14 – Stanion, Thrapston, Huntingdon, Geddington, Little Stanion: Southern terminus of A6116 concurrency; north-eastern terminus of A4300: 52.3: 84.2: A6086 north (Geddington Road) – Corby, Oakham: Oakham signed northbound only; southern terminus of A6086
Roade is a village in Northamptonshire, England. Currently in West Northamptonshire, before local government changes in 2021 it was represented by South Northamptonshire District Council, falling within the two-member Blisworth and Roade ward. Roade village has a long medieval history dating as far back as 1066 [3] The village's name means ...
Northamptonshire (/ n ɔːr ˈ θ æ m p t ə n ʃ ər,-ʃ ɪər / nor-THAMP-tən-shər, -sheer; [4] [5] abbreviated Northants.) is a ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire to the south and Warwickshire to the west.
Stoke Bruerne is a village and civil parish in West Northamptonshire, England, about 10 miles (16 km) north of Milton Keynes and 7 miles (11 km) south of Northampton. Narrowboat emerging from the south portal of the Blisworth Tunnel just north of Stoke Bruerne Boat-weighing machine at Stoke Bruerne, originally from the Glamorganshire Canal